California has nine state income tax rates, ranging from 1% to 12.3%. Residents, part-year residents and certain nonresidents have to pay. Your California tax rate and tax bracket depend on your taxable income and filing stat...
All of 10 seconds to find an answer on google. More than half to schools and health care, the majority of the rest going to higher ed, corrections, human services, and natural resources. I don't know what it actually in the Other category, but I assume it includes basically everything previously discussed in this thread.
That really explains nothing. You didn't even comprehend the question.
These are things every state spends tax money on. Why does CA have to raise more tax revenue per capita to sustain these basics, despite the luxury of environmental stability? No hurricanes, no roads destroyed by winter. This is a grape-growing shangri-la after all.
About its only real trouble is "drought," i.e. period of below-average rainfall. That happens everywhere from time to time, so letting it be a problem means poor planning.
Because CA is squarely in the middle of states in per capita budget, 2.5 times lower than the per capita budget of North Dakota.
So what's your question? Why does CA need to raise the same amount of money as every other state??
This is a list of U.S. state government budgets as enacted by each state's legislature. Note that a number of states have a two-year or three year budget (e.g.: Kentucky) while others have a one-year budget (e.g.: Massachuset...